Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

A team of physicists has created a cloud of ultracold atoms that stubbornly resists the most basic rule of everyday ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

Physicists have built a quantum gas that behaves nothing like the substances we are used to, and that is exactly why it is ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an invaluable tool in unlocking the secrets ...

Long considered a serious technical challenge, superradiance could actually help quantum devices go even further.

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. have made a groundbreaking achievement after they captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Since the prize announcement, cheers and excitement have surrounded the home ...

Using a clever laser technique, scientists have squished pairs of atoms closer together than ever before, revealing some truly mind-boggling quantum effects. When you purchase through links on our ...

The tiny atom, the basic building block of everything, is itself almost nothing, but atoms form a crossroads where science ...